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Seeds^ and the large proofs he brings to alftrt them,we |liall Lere 
fay nothing, butdefirethe Intelligent Reader to cofnpare his 
-whole difcourfe wirh that of the Noble Author of fine Confide- 
radons about iht Excellemy and Grounds of the Mechanical Hy- 
pthefts ; Which we have already given fome accbnnt of above. 
Meantime v^e cannot but commend this Phi'ofopher for ra- 
king particular notice of that admirable work of KtitYtthn ^ 
whereby, /(pr inflanccy an Oxc grows in all and every part of his^ 
whether k be Mufcular, Bony, Cartiiaglnous,Nervous,&c. on'y 
by grafs and plain Vvater, which paffing into the Head, Hearty 
Lungs, Liver, Arms, Feet, c^^. do become each of thofe parts 
refpeftively, and doing fo, give us to contlder, tl at each pare 
contains fomeching pecuhar, that is not in any oihi^r part , by 
means whereof [he aliment conveyed thither is converted into 
the nature of C^'.^.)^'^^ ^^^^^9 ^^o^^he Liver, the Lung% no': the 
Sp!een,^r. 
But;how he comes to make fuch an efamatej 'thai that parr of 
a Seed, in which properly the prolifique vertue lodgerh, ard 
which is ftriftly called the geniture ^ is no more than the tw^o 
thoufandth eight hundredthpart (2800) of its body; and v ho 
are all \\0^tgenuin Philofophers whom he appeals to f, 1 7 3^ 1 64 ; 
I fliould be very g'ad to be mformed of. 
/ After he hath amply difcourfed in genera! of the nature of 
Seedsand the Seminal ideao^ charaaer;he proceeds to pariicu- 
lars,applyirg his general difcourfe to the generation of AnimalSj 
Vegetables and Minerals. Of AmmaU he take:h in hand the No- 
bleftof them,eJ'r^;^,and giveth a large account both of his For- 
mation in the womb, and his Nutrition when brought into the 
world. Where do occur many Obfervables, touching the active 
power of the feed of the Female, the prodiKSionof Viviparous 
animals from Eggs, the manner of Conception , the gathering of 
the Seed from all the parts of the Animal, and the imprinting of 
theparticu;a-r characters of each part in. the Blood m,oving 
through the whole body,and by the Blood, as a vehicle , to the 
organs of generation : Further, the caufe of the determinate fizes 
of animals, efpecia'ly of Men> Pigmies and Giants 5 the ftrange 
force of Imagination exemplified ; the fafficiency of the feed 
of the Male to impregnate many Fggs at once, efpecially cf a 
Cock ; the caufe of Mon^lrofity^difference of Sexes^and cleaxb; 
of the remaining of the Idea s or Charaders in the Bodies of A- 
nimals 
